The Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent is a designation made popular by James Breasted, an American archaeologist. Although the term is not used in the Bible, it traverses the area where most of the Biblical events occurred - a sickle-shaped region from the Persian Gulf, northwestward along the Tigris and Euphrates River systems, through Syria, Lebanon, and then southward along the Mediterranean coast through the land of Israel to Egypt and the Nile River.

The Garden Of Eden was located somewhere in the eastern region of the Fertile Crescent. Despite the efforts of many to find it, the garden would not have survived the Great Flood in the time of Noah.

Also from the Tigris-Euphrates Valley came two of Israel's most devastating foes - the Assyrians with their capital in Nineveh, and the Chaldeans under King Nebuchadnezzar with their capital at Babylon. It was to that area that both the northern and southern kingdoms of Israel and Judah were taken off into exile - and where the "Lost Ten Tribes" disappeared from history.